Teens Boil Sanitary Pads to Get High

Teenage Indonesians have been boiling sanitary pads and drinking the water to get high. Police in Jakarta, Bekasi, West Java and Kudus have arrested several teenagers caught experimenting with diiferent ways of getting intoxicated. Most used menstrual pads to make the formula.

Adj. Sr. Comr. Suprinarto, the head of the Central Java chapter of the National Narcotics Agency, said it was the chlorine in the boiled mixture that created a feeling of “flying” and hallucinations similar to the sensation experienced when taking certain drugs. “The used pads they took from the trash were put in boiling water. After it cooled down they drank it together,” Suprinarto said.